Thanks for posting this.
Some years ago, I was drinking coffee early one morning while using the computer. I took a sip of coffee and immediately had the sensation that someone had put hot, hot pepper sauce in my coffee. Then the burning sensation in my mouth spread to my cheek and jowl, the right side of my neck and down my right arm
In a slight panic I hied to my wife’s side and explained what I was experiencing, and engaged in discussion of any other potential symptoms of something irregular. Balance, speech, mobility were all normal and the burn subsided after about five minutes, leaving only a strange minor tingling sensation in my neck, tongue and arm.
After many, many diagnostics, the neurologist diagnosed it as a likely TIA, or “mini-stroke.” Our personal physician gave my wife holy hell for not calling 911 immediately, but it didn’t really occur to us at the time.
I’m an aspirin-a-day man now, for life.
TC
My cousin had some sort of ‘attack’ and sloughed it off. She felt better quickly and thought it was just one of those things that come with age (early 60’s at the time) and didn’t go to the hospital. Then she had another occurence and went to the hospital. Tests revealed she’d had strokeS, but so far, so good. She left the hospital, never followed up on any of the suggested treatments or tests and had a massive stroke a couple of weeks later.
She’s still alive, but doesn’t talk, doesn’t socialize, and while she can walk, she can barely get around her home. At a time when she could be enjoying her retirement and still getting out and having a life, she’s home bound, ill, and depressed.
If you have a symptom, get it checked. If they tell you to have more tests or go on meds, do so. It’s all very sad, she was a bubbly person who is a shell of her former self now.